Germanisch-romanische Agrarkontinuität und -diskontinuität im nordalpinen Kontinentaleuropa - Teile eines Systemwandels? Beobachtungen aus archäologischer Sicht

Scale linkage and contingency effects of field-scale and hillslope-scale controls of long-term soil erosion: Anthropogeomorphic sediment flux in agricultural loess watersheds of Southern Germany

“…The basics of this field system were introduced in the early Medieval with the advancing establishment of Merovingian and Carolingian agriculture in Europe (Haversath, 1999;Henning, 2004). At least since then, partly different from a maybe more stable demarcation of field borders because of the enclosure field system in Britain, on central European arable land reallocations and amalgamation of parcels and fields took place at any time land tenure, legal regulations, and cultivation practice of food and fiber production changed.…”

“…As late as the Early to High Medieval period a continuous, intense cultivation, based on managed field systems, has been established at the landscape-scale (e.g., Henning, 2004;Hamerow, 2002). Up to the present large areas of Europe show fragmented hillslopes where artificial structures impede or enhance sediment conveyance within fields, between fields, from hillslopes to valley floors, and in bypassing linkages.…”